Nation: THE LESSONS OF APPOMATTOX

LYNDON JOHNSON often likens his own problems to Lincoln's, and indeed
the 16th and the 36th Presidents have many in common: a long,
frustrating war, a divided homefront, and national doubts about
presidential leadership. There is one even more striking similarity:
though the North was vastly superior to the South in nearly everything
that should have brought early victory, four years were required to
bring about Lee's sur render at Appomattox. However, unlike Lincoln,
who testedand found wantingmore than half a dozen generals before
he found a winner in Grant, Lyndon Johnson has yet to name his second
field commander.